Full-text databases do not allow for the complexity of the interaction of the human eye and brain with printed matter. As a result, both content and context may be lost. The authors propose additional indexing fields that would maintain the content and context of print in electronic formats.

The purpose of the study was to identify strategies used by preservice elementary teachers to index distributions of data. A secondary purpose of the study was to investigate whether representational form influenced the type of representative values constructed. Two hundred eighty-three preservice teachers were administered a selection of tasks…

In this article, the author discusses "CanCore," a learning resource metadata initiative funded by Industry Canada and supported by Athabasca University, Alberta, and TeleUniversite du Quebec, and describes the increasing range of international uses of the "CanCore" metadata for the indexing of learning objects.…

Two computerized searching techniques each prove to be about 80 percent accurate, thus offering better assistance to reporters searching for background information in newspaper morgues than are currently available. (RB)

There are four problems in modern composition bibliography that result directly from the continuing research paradigm instability in the field. The first problem is that of definition. Composition is a hybrid, practical sort of field, with very ill-defined and shifting boundaries. The recent extension of composition from "formal writing…

Two articles provide: (1) instructions for gaining telecommunications access to CHILDES, a child language database; and (2) the conventions guiding transcript coding in the database. The first article provides access instructions for telecommunications systems, the commands a user would need to know, and brief notes on searching and other aspects…

This document is the newest revision of the third manual documenting the National Agricultural Library database. Since it began in 1970, the AGRICOLA database has continued to grow and to change steadily; new subfiles have been added, database record formats have been expanded, and subject category code schemes have been modified several times.…

As a consequence of research in machine translation, several related applications of Electronic Data Processing have developed in linguistics and literature. A survey of this development is followed by an exposition of the process necessary for setting up an automatic lexicon. (TL)

The Physical Diagnosis Slide Bank, a collaborative project of the Universities of Washington, California at San Diego, and Arizona, utilizes an online interactive computer program to access a collection of over 2000 teaching clinical slides. Searchable data elements for each slide in the bank include subject descriptors (MeSH); accession number;…

Transcribed and edited from tape recordings and prepared papers, these proceedings present the topics covered in the four sessions of the Second Seminar on Freelance Indexing: (1) how to get started as an indexer--making contracts, setting up the office, billing and bookkeeping, reference tools, filing for trade-name, and indexing apprenticeship;…

A SUBJECT HEADING AUTHORITY LIST CONTAINING MAIN ENTRIES, SCOPE NOTES, CROSS-REFERENCES, AND SUBDIVISIONS IS COMPILED, PRINTED, AND UPDATED BY COMPUTER. DESIGN CRITERIA, PROGRAMING, INPUT PREPARATION, PRINTING, AND FUTURE REFINEMENTS OF THE LIST TECHNIQUE ARE COVERED. A UNIQUE CODE WAS DESIGNED FOR SEQUENCING THE MASTER TAPE FILE AND PREPARING…

A SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE ON EVALUATION OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS HAS BEEN CONDUCTED BY THE TECHNICAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE, CENTER FOR COMPUTER SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY, NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS. DURING THE EARLY STAGES OF THE SURVEY, THE LITERATURE WAS DIVIDED AMONG DESCRIPTIONS OF PROGRAMS WHICH COMPARED THE PERFORMANCE OF TWO OR MORE…

ASSOCIATIVE ADJUSTMENTS TO A DOCUMENT FILE ARE CONSIDERED AS A MEANS FOR IMPROVING RETRIEVAL. A THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF A GENERALIZED MISMATCH MEASURE WAS CARRIED OUT AND IMPROVEMENTS IN RETRIEVAL RESULTING FROM PERFORMING ASSOCIATIVE REGRESSION ADJUSTMENTS ON DATA FILE WERE EXAMINED BOTH FROM THE THEORETICAL AND…

Based on a series of studies performed by ERIC/Information Resources staff and consultants which focused on the activities of over 40 experienced online searchers, this report offers the following suggestions for enhancing certain online retrieval system features and making improvements in ERIC vocabulary: (1) the implementation of an online…

THIS PAPER IS A CASE STUDY OF THE ADOPTION BY GEOSCIENCE ABSTRACTS OF UNIDEK, A COMPUTER-COMPILED SYSTEMATIC SUBJECT INDEX BASED ON THE UNIVERSAL DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION (UDC). EVENTS LEADING TO A DECISION TO ADOPT THE SYSTEM, SOME THEORY OF INDEXES, PROBLEMS INVOLVED IN CONVERSION, AND SOME OF THE RESULTS ACHIEVED ARE REVIEWED. UNIDEK MAKES…